CEO Daily Brief with Dr. Jessica Kriegel

50% Turnover Is Not “Normal.” It’s an Operational Defect.

In today's episode: A private equity leader confronts CEOs who dismiss high turnover as just how the industry works, and challenges them to solve it like any operational

Leadership 'Training'

In today's episode: Leadership training budgets are disappearing even as teams beg for it, and there's a specific reason the old three hour workshop model never actually

There Is No Such Thing as “The Labor Market”

In today's episode: A company with over 100,000 hourly workers reveals why there's no such thing as a single national labor market for them. There's a coming AI tool bu

AI is Creating Capacity. Will Leaders Cut Costs or Build a Growth Engine?

In today's episode: Almost everyone answers the same way when asked why they're using AI. But they’re answering the wrong question entirely. A study of 7,000 knowledge

Announcing The Work Signal

In today's episode: A call from one of the largest HR organizations in the world sets off a partnership that's about to change what shows up in your inbox every two week

The Bad First Draft That Moves Billions

In today's episode: A number that moves markets every single month turns out to be built on a shakier foundation than most people realize, and it's wrong by design. The

If AI Does the Junior Work, How Does Anyone Become Senior?

In today's episode: The AI and talent pipeline panic sweeping the workplace world might be asking the wrong question entirely. A 23 year-old associate reveals the surpr

Trust, AI & Culture in Supply Chain

In today's episode: A 25 year supply chain veteran reveals why the biggest risk to automation and AI rollouts has nothing to do with the technology itself. There's a sp

AI Saved TIAA 90 Minutes. The Real Work Came Next

In today's episode: A sales team facing shutdown turned things around not through a new dashboard or incentive plan, but through one weekly habit a leader started doing.

Learning and Development

In today's episode: New research shows companies are pulling back sharply on training budgets this year, and there are three specific reasons behind the drop. Why a per

Before IKEA Scaled AI, It Educated Leaders

In today's episode: One 17 year-old's one minute AI experiment left a top executive stunned enough to completely rethink his company's leadership strategy. There's a gr

Your $20 AI Budget Is Not An AI Strategy

In today's episode: Handing every employee a small monthly AI budget and calling it innovation turns out to be hiding a much bigger problem underneath. How companies ad

Lack of Stability in Leadership

In today's episode: There's a wave of instability spreading across teams right now, and the source is often closer to home than leaders realize. A specific silence in t

AI Saved Time but the Organization Didn't Change

In today's episode: New research on thousands of knowledge workers found AI is saving them time, but that individual efficiency isn't translating into organizational gai

The Most Important Lesson at the Table

In today's episode: A leader finally earned a seat at an exclusive strategy group, only to be removed just two meetings later for a reason that caught her completely off

If AI Changes the Work, Should It Change Who You Hire?

In today's episode: There's a difference between telling someone they're not good enough and telling them the job simply doesn't exist anymore. A leader's rule for orga

How Change Actually Becomes Culture

In today's episode: A leader's role in modeling culture change turns out to matter more than any facility's size or security level. There's a surprising connection betw

Transforming Into a Change Agent

In today's episode: A corrections agency went from working in silos to a graduation rate jump most training programs would envy, and it started with three simple cultura

Change Management vs Activation

In today's episode: A powerful metaphor about sailing reveals exactly why so many change initiatives stall out even after every employee understands the plan. The subtl

LLM Apocalypse

In today's episode: A Linux maintainer made headlines by deleting a massive chunk of old code, and the reason behind it has everything to do with how AI is changing work